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Price Recall, Bertrand Paradox and Price Dispersion With Elastic Demand

Carvalho, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

This paper studies the consequence of an imprecise recall of the price by the consumers in the Bertrand price competition model for a homogeneous good. It is shown that firms can exploit this weakness and charge prices above the competitive price. This markup increases for rougher recall of the...

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Extreme Value Theory Approach to Simultaneous Monitoring and Thresholding of Multiple Risk Indicators

Einmahl, John; Li, J.; Liu, R.Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

Risk assessments often encounter extreme settings with very few or no occurrences in reality.Inferences about risk indicators in such settings face the problem of insufficient data.Extreme value theory is particularly well suited for handling this type of problems.This paper uses a multivariate...

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Prescribing Behavior of General Practitioners : Competition Matters!

Schaumans, C.B.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality.<br/>Objectives: We investigate whether GPs exhibit different prescribing behavior (volume and value of...

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'Be Nice Unless it Pays to Fight' : A New Theory of Price Determination with Implications for Competition Policy

boone, jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

This paper introduces a simple extensive form pricing game.The Bertrand outcome is a Nash equilibrium outcome in this game, but it is not necessarily subgame perfect.The subgame perfect equilibrium outcome features the following comparative static properties.The more similar firms are, the...

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The Impact of Competition on Bank Orientation and Specialization

Degryse, Hans; Ongena, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

How do banks react to increased interbank competition?Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the impact of competition on bank orientation í L H WKH choice of relationship based versus transactional banking í DQG EDQN LQGXVWU\ specialization.We empirically investigate the...

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Distance, Lending Relationships and Competition

Degryse, Hans; Ongena, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

A recent string of theoretical papers highlights the importance of geographical distance in explaining pricing and availability of loans to small firms.Lenders located in the vicinity of small firms have significantly lower monitoring and transaction costs, and hence considerable market power if...

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The Impact of Organizational Structure and Lending Technology on Banking Competition

Degryse, Hans; Laeven, L.; Ongena, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

Recent theoretical models argue that a bank's organizational structure reflects its lending technology.A hierarchically organized bank will employ mainly hard information, whereas a decentralized bank will rely more on soft information.We investigate theoretically and empirically how bank...

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Service Value Chains and Effects of Scale

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper generalizes Porter’s notion of the value chain for the analysis of service industries. The generalization entails that the flow and the physical transformation and assembly of goods that are characteristic of manufacturing are generalized into flows and transformation of data and...

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Trade, Technology Diffusion and Misallocation : Trade Partner Matters (Replaces CentER DP 2011-125)

Curuk, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: This paper suggests that contingent on the productivity level of the trade partner; international trade may … diffusion induced by trade and cross sectoral heterogeneity in productivity distributions, and technology adoption rates leads … to asymmetric pro-competitive effects, which in turn result in misallocation. In this framework trade increases welfare …

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Foreign Bank Entry and Credit Allocation in Emerging Markets

Degryse, Hans; Havrylchyk, O.; Jurzyk, E.; Kozak, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We employ a unique data set containing bank-specific information to explore how foreign bank entry determines credit allocation in emerging markets. We investigate the impact of the mode of foreign entry (greenfield or takeover) on banks’ portfolio allocation to borrowers with different...

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